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Destination of Pupils on Completion of their Secondary Education. The following table summarizes the returns furnished by Principals of schools respecting the destination of pupils who left high schools, district high schools, technical high schools, and day technical schools during or at the end of the year J 928. The figures are in all cases exclusive of pupils who left one school to enter another full-time post-primary school: —

In the table below are shown for comparative purposes the percentages of the total number of boys leaving each class of school last year who proceeded to the University or to employment in the three main occupational groups. The corresponding figures for three previous years are also shown where these are available.

From the above figures it will be seen that during the past four years industrial and farming occupations have been progressively finding more favour amongst the boys leaving post-primary schools. Between the years 1925 and 1928 the percentage of boys leaving post-primary schools and engaging in farming has risen from 17 to 21, and the percentage of boys entering upon trade and industrial occupations has increased from 13 to 16. In the same period the percentage of boys taking up commercial, clerical, and professional occupations has decreased from 46 to 39. The combined effect of these movements should, to some extent, remove the reproach that our post-primary schools are creating a bias away from farming and industrial pursuits. It is recognized, of course, that the movement towards farming and industrial occupations noted above may in some degree be not altogether the outcome of a change of mind on the part of those responsible for deciding the occupations of boys leaving school, but the inevitable result of the prevailing trade depression with its accompanying lack of openings in the commercial, clerical, and professional walks. At the same time, if, as is desired on almost all sides, our schools are so equipped and our system so organized that the aptitudes of pupils in the direction of farming and industry can be discovered and developed, the percentage of pupils entering what are termed " cuff-and-collar occupations " will, continue to decrease,

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ai Technical High and Secondary Departments Tnfnia Secondary Schools. Day Scho s olg of Djstrict m g h Schools . Totals. Occupation j ®°y s - j Girls. Boys. j Girls. Boys. Girls. I Boys. | Girls. T\j n Per N | Per ~ i Per N - Per x Per | N Per N Per j N Per No - j Cent. °' Cent. . I Cent. JN0, jCent. . ■ |Cent. iNO ' |Cent.| • < entUniversity college . . 142 5 78 4 11 1 I 7 * 6 1 2 * j 159 3 87 2 Teaching or training college 90 3 253 11 23 1 34 2 24 3 60 8 137 3 347 8 (!]erical Government or local body 204 8 17174 4 19 1 60 7 4 1 338 6 40 1 Banks, insurance .. 141 5 4 * 18 1 5 * 16 2 j .. * 175 3 9 * Legal . 47 2 3 * 5 * 10 1 3 *1 2 * 55 1 15 * Commercial .. .. 358 13 401 18 157 8 288 18 48 8 61 9 563 10 750 16 Engineering, surveying, and 85 3 .. 169 9 .. * 30 3 ; 1 * 284 5 1 * architecture Various trades and industries 322 12 49 2 429 23 90 6 117 13 10 1 868 16 149 3 Shop and warehouse .. 262 10 169 ; 7 > 224 12 153 10 103 12 69 10 589 11 391 9 Farming .. .. 499 18 .. .. 341 18 8 * 294 34 1. * 1,134 21 9 * Home .. .. ..137 5 1,142 50 77 4 730 46 52 6 473 65 266 5 2,345 51 Other occupations.. .. 45 2 88 4-j 51 3 43 3 37 4 30 4 133 2 161 4 Not known .. . . 387 14 72 3 j 290 16 210 13 78 9 15 2 755 14 297 6 Totals .. .. 2,719 100 2,276 100 1,869 100 1,597 100 868 100 728 100 5,456 100 4,601 100 * No significant percentage.

Clerical, Professional, j Trades and University. Shop, and Ware- i Farming. Industries. house. Class of School. I _ _ " -1 -I • | | I I I ! I " ■ I I I I 1925.11926. 1927-| 1928. 1925. 1926. 1927. 1928. 1925. 1926. 1927. 1928.11925J 1926.11927. j 1928. I I S 1 ! I , I l.i 1 'I .r i I ■ ■ I III;- I Secondary .. .. * * 7 5 , * * 43 44 * * I 17 18 * * 11 12 Technical . . .. * * 1 1 j * * 34 | 35 * * 17 18 * * 25 ! 23 District high .. * * f 1 ! * * 39 | 33 * * 31 34 * * 12 13 All schools .. .. 3 4 4 3 i 46 43 40 | 39 17 20 19 21 13 15 16 16 I j - I ' : . I' I . * Separate figures not available. t No significant percentage.